ksettle

ksettle specializes in CCU, LTAC.

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1. Nurse to resident ratios in LTC for Colorado

   ksettle replied to cherryw28's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   PRofit for facility that can cut corners and get away with staffing less than is necessary to provide quality care, hmmmmmm, urband legend or fact? Just joking, work at a Texas LTAC where staffing has...

2. Safe harbour or not

   ksettle replied to ksettle's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Update...feeling I have nothing to lose since I am going to proactively look for another job... I completed the Safe Harbour paperwork prior to the 48 hour deadline and just handed it in to House...

3. Safe harbour or not

   ksettle replied to ksettle's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Sader, thanks for the response and prayer. First thing I did when I woke up this morning was come to this forum. I know there are no answers and this being an employee state pretty much beginning to...

4. Safe harbour or not

   ksettle posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I am a charge nurse w/i a LTAC facility that has seen changes in staffing/patient ratios with increasing staff turnover and increasing use of agency nurses. The changes mostly stem from changing...